Those guys really committed unforgivable offences.
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Edo State has offered insights into why Governor Adams Oshiomhole signed the warrants of four criminals on death row.
The warrants, the Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice of Edo State, Barrister Henry Idahagbon, stated were signed because death sentence has not been expunged from the nation's criminal code acts.
He spoke yesterday when civil society organisations and students' leaders led by the Executive Director of Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, Reverend David Ugolor, protested the killing of criminals on death row in the state.
The commissioner called on civil society organisations to take their advocacy campaigns against the killing of convicts on death row to the National Assembly.
It said the groups should lobby the national legislators for death sentence to be expunged from the nation's criminal code acts.
Idahagbon explained that any state governor is under a legal duty to sign execution warrants, stating that governors who fail to sign can be sued.
According to him: "As we speak today in Edo State, there are three offences that carry death penalty.
"The first is murder under section 319, the second is armed robbery and the third is treasonable felony.
"When a person is charged with armed robbery or any of these three offences, the judge has no discretion. He must impose the sentence of death because that is the law!"
He said the execution warrants were signed on the four convicts after they exhausted all their rights known to law up to the Supreme Court.
Expatiating on their crimes, he said:
"Daniel Nsofor entered a motor from Ekpan to Ehor and with two others and a lady called Maria Imariagbe.
"At about 07:15, they disembarked from the vehicle at Ehor and then they got this Maria Imariagbe, they strangulated her, killed her and collected her money.
"ChimaIjiofor was a spare parts dealer in Benin here. He has a relationship with a woman that led to the birth of a baby.
"The baby was two and half months old. He came to visit the baby and the mother at their house.
"He gave money to the mother to go and buy Coca Cola and before she came back, he poured acid into the mouth of the baby and the baby died.
"What was his excuse? He said that as a first child from his state of origin, he is not expected to have a child out of wedlock."
He continued:
"Osarenmwinda Aigbokhian went into the bush and he said he saw a big deer.
"He said he shot at the deer and the deer died. He went there and he started butchering the deer.
"While butchering the deer, the deer turned to a human being. He didn't stop. He cut the human being into small parts and buried them in several parts of the bush.
"When autopsy was done, there was no mark of any bullet. So, there was no shooting. The person was killed with a very sharp object.
"The one remaining, Richard Igagu, was not executed because the sentence of the court is that he should die by firing squad. He went with his gang to a house to rob.
"After robbing the man of his possessions, they raped the wife. And after raping the wife, they took a bottle and inserted the bottle into the private part of the wife until she bled to death."
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